Day 7: A faster way to switch between Safari tabs

Switching Safari tabs on your iPhone used to take multiple taps on the screen each time you wanted to move to another tab, but a new solution has been introduced with iOS 16! Now you can swipe between tabs instead of navigating via your list of tabs. We'll show you how.

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